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Most creative types know well the eye of the artistic hurricane: trying to find that sweet, productive spot while teetering on the edge of sanity thanks to endless hours of solitude, sleep deprivation, and malnutrition, all in the name of expression.

1:00PM Sun. Nov. 1, 2015, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: Coming Through the Rye

It’s remarkable how J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye continues to resonate with each generation of readers who identify with the book’s misunderstood (in his mind) protagonist, the sensitive and troubled 17-year-old Holden Caulfield.

12:40PM Sun. Nov. 1, 2015, Steve Davis Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: Tear Me Apart

The end of the world will be a strange place, but not one quite bereft of all hope. That's the somber message of Tear Me Apart, the new British post-apocalyptic horror-thriller.

12:30PM Sun. Nov. 1, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Armadillo Day w/ Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, the Well

Central Machine Works

48 Hour Improv Marathon
at Hideout Theatre & Coffeehouse

Mélat
at The Pershing

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Austin Film Festival: Newcomer

Nothing is what it seems in the near-perfect psychological thriller Newcomer. It’s a jigsaw puzzle of a movie in which the pieces are merely sounds, leaving its titular neophyte to naively imagine a truth that fits his conscience.

12:45PM Sat. Oct. 31, 2015, Steve Davis Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: The Lion’s Path

This debut feature from Québecoise director Stéphan Beaudoin gets high marks for its excellent ensemble cast and its clever and occasionally alarming portrait of a communal psychotherapy group in rural Canada and the manipulative mind games that go on there.

12:15PM Sat. Oct. 31, 2015, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: Booger Red

Adapted from Michael Hall’s 2009 Texas Monthly article “Across the Line,” Booger Red is an explosive example of cinematic “new journalism” that re-examines the facts surrounding one of the state’s most horrific cases of alleged child sex rings.

11:45AM Sat. Oct. 31, 2015, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: El Jeremias

Jeremias is only 8 years old, but in his short time on Earth he has done a thorough job of becoming an outsider. Bored with school, pushed around by classmates, and lost in the shuffle at home, this sweet and precocious kid just can’t win.

11:30AM Sat. Oct. 31, 2015, Caitlin Moore Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: Jack's Apocalypse

Desperation. Isolation. Stragglers gathering together in tribal groupings, desperate for succor, willing to trade their teeth for one last drink. Is anyone shocked that the end of the world will start on Sixth Street?

10:40AM Sat. Oct. 31, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: This Is Halloween

Everyone has their favorite Halloween movie. Personally, it's the rock 'em, shock 'em glory of Trick 'r Treat, its bag-headed, candy-crunching icon Sam a virtual saint in my household. But sometimes, you may want a change, or at least some counterprogramming, from your seasonal must-see.

9:00AM Sat. Oct. 31, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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